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lings. At six in the evening we reached Tong- 
taong, or the Village of the Three Mountains, 
and found shelter for the night in a tolerably 
good wooden house. The evening soon be¬ 
came cold, and we were glad to get under our 
blankets at an early hour. The village we 
were at was but small: it is situated on a spa- 
cious table-land, considerably below the high¬ 
est portion of the mountain. Our cicerone , ra¬ 
ther a disagreeable person, addicted to strong 
potations and other irregularities, and who slept 
in the same apartment with us, was the lord, or, 
as the Burmans call it, <6 the eater” of this vil¬ 
lage and the lands attached to it. Belonging to it 
are some good fields of millet, nearly ripe, with 
fields of sesamum, tobacco, and maize. In its 
gardens and orchards there were ginger, papya 
figs, jacks, and guavas, with some common es¬ 
culent vegetables. Among the latter there was 
abundance of pumpkins, and a large kind of 
bean, pretty frequent in Hindostan (DolicJios 
tetra gonolobus.) Among the trees there was 
one remarkable for such a situation, the com¬ 
mon pear-tree. The greater number of these 
were covered with a profusion of blossoms ; on 
some, however, there was fruit nearly ripe. 
This was round, a little depressed, tolerably 
smooth, and of a brown colour. Although 
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